Site Search Navigation

Site Navigation

Site Mobile Navigation

Which Cover Would You Choose?

By Arem Duplessis March 13, 2012 5:38 pmMarch 13, 2012 5:38 pm

For our latest cover, we came up with a lot of options. We narrowed them down to five and opened up our official N.Y.T. Magazine Polling Station. The rules are simple: the entire staff votes on their favorite cover by dropping a wooden chip (coffee stirrer) into an upside down paper cup with a slit cut into it. It’s the closest we ever get to a focus group (thankfully), and the staff seems to enjoy it. The polling station is located right in front of my office, so I get to listen to all of the heated debates. Full disclosure: The majority does not always rule, but it gives us a good idea about what people like and don’t like:

Do you have a favorite? Let us know. The cover we decided on will be revealed tomorrow.

Bruce Grierson wrote this week’s cover story about Ellen Langer, a Harvard psychologist who has conducted experiments that involve manipulating environments to turn back subjects’ perceptions of their own age.Read more…